What the heck can that mean? Galactica doesn’t have enough jumps (five) left in her to get to Cavil (at least 12 away) - never mind not knowing where the bad guy Cylons are in the first place. What - Adama is going to sit and wait for Cavil to come to him? Isn’t it sensible to make those 5 jumps with the fleet to try to escape Cavil and then abandon her?
Well if I saw the opening correctly. Hera showed us that the Galactica will be be Rammed into a basestar.
I think they will probably find a way to sacrifice it in an attack on Cavil. I know you say they’re too far away but at some point they have to resolve the conflict with Cavil and its not like they have next season to do it.
Do we know with certainty that Cavil is more than 5 jumps away, do we know how many jumps Boomer made to get there? Gods know I miss a lot, might of missed or lost track of that one.
If we don’t really know where Cavil is we don’t really know how many jumps are required. Maybe Cavil is close enough and the ol’ girl has just enough left. Maybe Adama finds out where that freaky ugly evil cylon base ship is. With just Bill and Saul left on the ship, Galactica makes final jump right into its belly and we get one really cool last devastating big bang.
At this point I don’t think trying to escape makes sense, they have to confront to give closure; at least closure for this cycle.
Maybe Galactica can jump farther if they’ve got their very own Hybrid Sam plotting the jumps? The mention that he might have wired himself into the FTLs just seems like something that’s going to come into play again. That’s also probably why it’s a suicide run–the Old Gal may barely have enough jumps to get to the Colony, but they certainly wouldn’t have enough to get back to the Fleet and its new guardian, the basestar.
Looks like its a suicide mission to take the Galactica directly to Cavil’s colony for the end game.
I think Boomer will end up sacrificiing/redeemign herself by rescuing Hera and putting humanity’s next step in evolution in the hands of its 2 newly adpoted parents Baltar & Caprica 6. They spent a scene on Caprica 6’s distaste for Baltar and that will probably come around by series end. I think the Opera House now is merely a projection of what will take place in the colony as “John did always like a theater” (paraphrased from Revelations.)
I have been stating in my previous threads that Caprica 6 will ultimately (not counting Hera) the central figure of the series. I would like to see the series end with her stating the final words that she stated to start the series “Are You Alive? Prove it?” The Center of the Last Supper table.
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Boomer mentioned to Hera that the Raptor they were on hadn’t been upgraded with Cylon FTL. That’s why it was taking so many jumps. But with the upgraded FTL and Sam at the controls, the Galactica can probably do it. And really, no matter where they settle or how much peace they make with the rebel Cylons, Cavil’s forces will never stop hunting them, so they have to do this if the survivors of humanity/Cylonity are going to make it.
I’m tingling with anticipation.
I don’t think this is going to end well. I was expecting “The Colony” to be a planet that would turn out to be OUR earth. Instead it’s just another floating Cylon facility. They’re all going to die in two weeks and end up floating in the vacuum of space. These people deserve a happier end than that!
That’s what I thought. 12 / 3 = 4. As Boomer had made a few more jumps before that, say 15 / 3 = 5. And that assumes they didn’t get a better than improvement than 3 times.
Well, since I’m asking for screen grabs - can anyone post this scene that I totally missed. Pegasus redux? Don’t “they” have to come up with something better than that?
Never mind - it just dawned on me that the reference was to Hera playing with the model ships. Yep, they’re going after Cavil, but I suspect Adama has something bigger and better than ramming in mind.
That’s the answer re the jumps. Wash and Kappa figured it out as well. And I agree that they cannot escape Cavil & Co. for long. Also, they have to have the Gunfight at the OK Corral for the series to end.
But how do they find Cavil, if that’s the plan? Am I missing that we know of a character who knows where the bad guys are? Or do they wait for Cavil to come to them and spring some sort of an “ambush”?
It’s going to end badly and end well. We still have one prophecy of the OGG that has yet to occur - the wings of an angel one. And now we have two clear candidates for that angel - Caprica 6 (and her new line of white clothing) and Kara Thrace (dead, but still around). Angels tend to make good things happen.
I imagine something will happen next week that will give them a clue to the whereabouts of the Colony. Perhaps Sam’s babbling, perhaps Roslin/Athena/Caprica Six’s dream, perhaps something to do with Kara’s search for her destiny. But it definitely looked like the volunteers for the final mission were gearing up for something big, so they must have found it somehow.
So did the recon mission with the heavy Cylon that discovered that the Colony had been moved actually manage to travel all the way back to original Cylon space and back in a matter of a couple of days? Granted it was with Cylon technology, but I figured they would have traveled farther over three years than could simply be jumped back in a few days. Granted in what took months for Galactica to find Kobal, a Cylon Raider (piloted by Starbuck) could jump back to Caprica in a couple of hours or maybe a day…
They should do it up like Superbad, have Ty and Adama all lit ], doing donuts around a moon while Van Halen’s “Panama” plays (rendered gorgeously in piano). Then they get out and blast it from a Viper. Then Adama cries more, and they have a drunken confession of bro love.
And the d*cks that Ty has been secretly drawing and hoarding turn out to contain a map to Earth Proper.
My guess:
Basic suicide mission to get Hera out. Battlestar flies into the heart of the cylon colony! Rescue squads go get hera, and escape…Battlestar spools up FTL…in the heart of the colony…and takes the whole thing out with her.
OOO!!! I like that!
We still have one prophecy of the OGG that has yet to occur - the wings of an angel one.
I always assumed that was refering to Starbuck’s Viper leading them to Earth (Erf).
Unless they’re fallen angels.
I thought the angels thing would refer to the Head characters. Baltar seemed pretty adamant this week that that’s what they were. He even seemed to imply that folks other than him (and possibly, other than Starbuck) were seeing “angels.” Maybe this is why everyone in the fleet is so cranky and disagreeable.